Tuesday, July 29, 2014

I had been thinking about scrapbooking my hobbies for a while. It was such a nice coincidence that the Paperclipping Roundtable had an episode about this very topic around the same time. It just confirmed for me the importance of documenting more about myself.

Two page LOs are NOT my thing! But this page of art in the Quince Blossomstack just went so well with my LO. Creating really does make me happy. I'll display these pages together in my album, this is my new easy way to make 2 page LOs. I think these artsy pages in the recent DCWV stacks could even be used as a big title and the companion page wouldn't need one.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

I made this flannel mask to use as a photo prop for my baby shower. It was all good until I got to the antlers!

I racked my brain thinking about how I was going to make the antlers stay up for the photo. The flannel I had is not stiff, So I went to my DCWV 6x6 flocked stack. I cut both the antlers from one 6x6 gray sheet and now they stay up no problem!

The best part is that they look like felt too :)

I struggled with those eyelashes because cutting details in felt is never easy...After doing the antlers, I wish I would have thought to use the white flocked paper instead. Would have saved myself SO much work!

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Tomorrow is Independence Day here in the USA and all week on the DCWV blog, we have been showcasing patriotic projects.

My husband served 5 years in the Marine Corps. before we got married.

I don't usually document our lives pre-marriage, I document every day stuff, events and our travels. But I thought I better start documenting more of our backgrounds because our kids are going to want to know more about us for sure.

I wanted to know more about his experience in the Marines and I wanted to put it in a way that would be easy for kids to read and understand. So I wrote some questions for him on a piece of 'The Ledger' stack which has that cool bracketed edge. I left space for him to answer the questions in his own handwriting. I think our handwriting whether we think it's pretty or not, is an important part of ourselves that should be recorder for posterity. Especially if we take into consideration how much we type these days.

I folded the ledger paper in half and tucked it in behind the blue square. I included other pictures of him as a Marine in the folded paper. I just let the bracketed edge peek out so it can be used as a pull tab.

Have a wonderful 4th of July!!!

I used:

The Brooklyn Stack, the Corrugate Stack, the Ledger Stack and Cardstock Neutrals

About Me

Hi! I'm Karla. I Live in southern California with my husband, daughter & our 3 dogs. I've been scrapbooking since 2003 and loved crafts ever since I can remember. I ocassionally make mini albums, cards and altered art. Mostly you'll find 12x12 layouts here.
I love art and crafting and there is so much inspiration out there in people's blogs. I was missing out, so I decided to create a blog to find inspiration and connect with all you talented people!
When I'm not crafting I like to read, hike and travel.